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August 5, 2009

G106: Rays 6, Red Sox 4

Penny (6-6-5-2-5, 117) was annoying and underwhelming, allowing two two-run home runs in the early innings -- Carlos Pena in the second and Carl Crawford in the third. Tampa Bay swept the brief two-game series.

In the eighth, Dustin Pedroia walked and Victor Martinez, who hit his first Red Sox home run in the sixth, doubled. Boston was down by three, but had runners at second and third and no one out.

In came Dan Wheeler -- who retired the side on only five pitches. Kevin Youkilis grounded out to third on the first pitch (FY scored). Jason Bay (who had donged in the second) grounded out to shortstop on the first pitch. Mike Lowell popped out to shortstop on a 1-1 pitch. Inexcusable.

Yankees beat the Blue Jays 8-4 and are 2.5 GA of the Red Sox. The Rays are 5.5 GB.

"The Red Sox have not yet made a formal announcement, but Josh Reddick is on his way back to the minor leagues with lefthander Bill Traber poised to take his spot on the 25-man roster for tonight's game with Tampa Bay."

Traber has a 3.32 ERA in 32 games (four starts) at Pawtucket this year.

Yeah, as long as Bay and Drew are healthy (or relatively so), this move makes sense. Plus Reddick will be back on Sept. 1st at the latest.Why not Bowden instead of Traber, though? Isn't Traber a human fuel can?

"Bowden is scheduled to start for Pawtucket today... so unless he is brought up today, he won't be the one coming up.Cabrera needs to get on the 40 man roster to come up... and I'm not sure who you move off to accomplish this (Velazquez might be the best choice). Cabrera pitched last night as well.Hunter Jones... who is on the 40 man roster, pitched 2 innings yesterday.McBeth pitched on Monday... but can't come back up without someone going on the DL."

Redsock - I feel your basement pain. Have a few cold ones and enjoy Penny pitching 8 strong and keeping their running game in check. haha.

how about a new aspect to the old nesn drinking game - a drink every time DRoberts begins his comments with either 'yeah' or 'no'. If I'm not mistaken at least once last night he began with 'yeah, no....' - that's a drink finisher right there

i can tell i am going to be sorer than a mf-er tomorrow. putting shit in new boxes from the liquor store and carting them from the basement or 1st floor to the 2nd (spare room) has been quite a workout. (also drying stuff out in the sun in the backyard today and tomorrow)

because we were home when the rain hit and the water backed up, we were able to get most stuff to higher ground right away.

also the cardboard absorbed a lot of the water. i'm very very lucky. if this had happened last tuesday afternoon, when we were in boston, i'd be mighty fucked. turns out most of the houses on our street had flooding.

i have carpet down there and it was bubbling under that, so i cut it open. maybe an inch or two? i have several bookshelves and the water was almost at the lip of overflowing onto the first shelf. i still splash when i walk down there.

it may not seem like much, but i usually have a lot of shit on the floor and many boxes of stuff scattered about.

i think i figured out what roberts sounds like. even now, months into the job, he still sounds like a kid trying to bullshit his way through some essay question on an exam he didn't study for. repeating don's words in a slightly different words, throwing in some mindless, meaningless cliches and then repeating the beginning words again.

Drink!Yeah! No!Would it be too crazy to say we take a drink every time he says 'y'know' in the middle of a sentence? We'd all be legless by inning 3. I'm holding out for a sentence with 'yeah', 'no' AND 'y'know'....

I know advertising is 211% bullshit, and US national brands of beer are all shitty anyway (expect Sam Adams, I guess), but seriously: why the fuck would you need a label to tell you if a beer is cold? What's wrong with just touching the motherfucking bottle. Do people really need to be reassured of absolutely every-fucking-thing before they can move a finger?

Oh, come the fuck on. Sutcliffe, talking about the rays tank: "supposedly there are no sting rays in there, but you never know". Yeah, like that's a mistake they would make... accidentally put in an animal that could kill you in the tank.